This Book Is, If Not Path-Breaking, Striving As It Does, An Analysis Of Nehru - The Man And The Leader, Yet Unattempted In Indian Political Lexicon. Based On Unimpeachable Sources, The Book Brings Out Vividly The Virtues And Faults Of The Man Who Sat At The Steering Wheel Of This Nation S Destiny After Freedom By Midnight . The Prevarication, Indecisiveness And Lack Of Focus In Nehru S Planning And Prescriptions Have All Been Brought Out With A Surgical Precision. This Book Does Not Merely Record The Events Of Nehru S Cretinuous Legacy That Has Deshaped The Present Indian Polity, And The Profound Effect His Thoughts Have Had On Our Intelligentsia. The Apocalypse Of Nehru S Deeds Is A Series Of Failures And Disasters. Finally, It Also Points Out To Our Present Day Youth Why They Are, Where They Find Themselves Today.

James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa—'Most Excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister. He fell in love with Khair, and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company. Possessing all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, White Mughals is a remarkable tale of harem politics, secret assignations, court intrigue, religious disputes and espionage.

""India Betrayed - Globalization and Realignment, looks at the vicissitudes of India's development process. The failure of the Nehruvian model and the ascendancy of the global monopolistic model are seen with reference to the underlying changes in the correlation of class forces. Alternative[s] to globalization and the nature of the class alignments taking shape at the global and national plane are also addressed. A global alliance of all the victims of 'new imperialism' is visualized as an alternative to the 'new world order'"--P. [4] of cover.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child. No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent. Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child. - Maria MontessoriIn India, where even stones and trees are worshipped, children are routinely beaten, neglected and abused. The daily news is rife with stories of abuse and neglect, often perpetrated in the name of discipline or protection. The Nithari case, female foeticide, instances of child marriage and the sexual abuse of minors - the statistics are frightening. Lakhs of children are robbed of childhood, and India is doing little to remedy that. While the government now acknowledges education and nutrition as the essential entitlements of children, there has been little legislation or initiative to safeguard their most fundamental rights. Child protection is still nowhere on the nation's radar.Loveleen Kacker distilled several years of research to write this cogent and powerful volume on why child abuse and neglect happens and how it affects children in India. She examines physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as neglect and maltreatment, especially of the girl child. Bringing real-life instances and case studies together with Kacker's own work on the rights of children, this is a guide for parents, policy makers, schoolteachers, paediatricians, childcare specialists - indeed, anyone with a stake in the welfare of minors. A timely and much-needed addition to the literature on child rights, Childhood Betrayed is also a call for change - nay a call to arms.